4.12.020 Rules and regulations.
A. No street performer may perform or solicit contributions for a performance:
1. Within ten feet of any street corner or marked pedestrian crosswalk.
2. Within ten feet of the outer edge of any entrance to any business, including but not limited to doors, vestibules, driveways, outdoor dining area entries and emergency exits during the hours that any business on the premises is conducting business, without express written permission from the affected business or business.
B. A street performer may not block or obstruct the free movement of pedestrians. If a sufficient crowd gathers to observe a performer such that a passage of the public through a public area is blocked or obstructed, a police officer or other City official may disperse that portion of the crowd that is blocking or obstructing passage of the public.
C. A street performer who performs for a charge shall obtain an appropriate business license as provided for in Moab Municipal Code.
D. No street performer may litter his or her performance site.
E. No street performer shall place any object on a public sidewalk which causes less than a four-foot contiguous sidewalk width to be kept clear for pedestrian passage.
F. No street performer shall perform on any public sidewalk with more instruments, props, equipment or other items than the performer can reasonably transport or remove at one time.
G. No street performer shall perform in contravention to the allowable noise levels established by Chapter 8.24.
H. No street performer shall block or obstruct a curb cut.
I. No street performer shall connect or maintain an electrical cord to an adjacent building or to a City power source, except as part of an approved use of a public park.
J. Street performers utilizing outdoor private property must obtain written permission from the property owner to engage in a performance.
K. Any street performer meeting one or more of the following conditions shall obtain a performance permit as provided for in this chapter prior to engaging in a performance:
1. The performance involves more than two performers, unless said performance is in an established public park, subject to the reservation requirements and use regulations of the park.
2. The performance involves the use or construction of any stage, platform or similar structure for use during any performance.
3. The performance involves the use of amplified music or sound.
4. The performance involves any advertising off the premises of the performance, including flyers, posters and signs.
5. The performance involves an admission charge.
6. The performance involves the use of knives, swords, torches, axes, saws, fire, whips, lassos, drones or other potentially dangerous objects or involves acrobatics, tumbling, unicycling, break dancing, stilts, trampolines, pogo sticks, karate, human pyramids, or other potentially dangerous activity. (Ord. 18-15 § 3, 2018)